"U.S. Department of Justice wants access to search enquiries at Google" Company wants "to oppose vehemently", lawsuit around online pornography in the background.

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"Gigantic amounts of data" analyzes
The U.S. Department of Justice wants of force the Internet search engines Google in the course of a pornography inquiry the handing out of millions of data. Google declined this strictly. "We will fight against the venture vehemently", quoted U.S. media the on the right adviser of the enterprise, Nicole Wong, on Friday.

Interest

The government wants to know of Google which search strings have entered the users in the course of a single week. Moreover, it demands look about this which web pages are found at the search. In the two cases Google shall with pleasure disclose select data sets per a million.

Defense

It had Google, the best known Internet search engine, refused, a request to follow for the handing out of the information while the opponents Yahoo and MSN (Microsoft) were cooperating with the government, already in last August. According to the medium reports the Department of Justice applied in California to a court in San Francisco on Wednesday to force Google to the handing over of the desired data.

Motives

The U.S. government wants to find out according to an information of its own users how frequently look for pornography on the Internet. Background is the efforts to put a law declared unconstitutional of the colonel court of justice the USA into operation to the protection of children once more. It stipulated that have to be able to to register adults who want to see online porn material. The court saw a violation of the fundamental right in it on a liberal expression of opinion. The government is trying to convince a Federal Court at the moment that the law offers children more protection from porn than Internet filter.

Secret

Among other things Google argues that the demand of the U.S. government too far goes and business secrets would be revealed with the handing out of the data. Yahoo, the second greatest search engine, cooperated "on a restricted basis" according to the newspaper "the USA Today" and didn't return private information. Microsoft has transmitted "general" data and also caught sight of the personality protection according to an information of its own.

(APA/Reuters)